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Hey Vjpcat,Yeah that was me! I got my sticker yesterday in the post :) My internet was struggling to keep up, I was exhausted and I was also super nervous, but I really enjoyed going on the show and tell and hope to do on again soon (maybe the next one).Thanks! It is a really long instructable ok, I would prefer it to be shorter but I really wanted to make sure I didn't leave anything out. I even didn't really go through the code in much detail (other than what you would need to change) because of how long it was.That sounds awesome, great idea! Do you have it written up anywhere?Yeah i was really happy with how they reacted to it! To do something that Lady Ada was surprised you were able to do is one my maker career high lights!

Hey, cool project.You should check out the ESP8266 chip, they are WiFi enabled boards that can be programmed with Arduino IDE. you can even host a webserver on them so you might be able to take your PI back and use it for something else!

Haha, my Daughter is only 10 months so a bit young for a phone so I had to make do with this ?

Thanks Mike, I really appreciate it!

Thanks a lot! :)

Hey Denis, Yeah WiFiManager does host a Web server, but it turns it off once it's finished, but so you would need to add a Web server inside your sketch. If you combine the first sketch I sent on with the example from WiFiManager you linked to you should have what you are looking for. After it connects your router you will be able to go to the ip address of the esp, get a webpage and there will be a button to toggle pin 2 (I think, but change it to whatever pin you want)

Hi Denis, By connecting to it with your computer, do you mean opening a web page?You would need to have a sketch that is running a webserver, have a look at this basic one from the ESP8266 exampleshttps://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/lib...

Thanks Aidan! I would love to see a picture if you do get around to making it!Let me know if you have any questions on any parts of it!

I think Google Maps does a pretty good job of this on PC and Smart Phone :)This was more of the challenge of trying to create a physical object that could be hung up in the office so you could quickly glance at it to see which was the best way to go. I also wanted the challenge of running something like this on a $3 board!

Thanks a lot!Yeah more LEDs would have been nice, but to be completely honest I started doing this a different way to begin with, with just regular RGB leds, of which I had exactly 18 LEDs in total! Eagle eyed people might even notice that the LED i poke through is not a neopixel (you can tell by the legs). I moved to Neopixels after deciding I did not want to solder 60 current limiting resistors to all the pins!Someone on reddit suggested el wire along the entire route, which is a cool idea but you would have to do something else for the colour changing aspect.Thanks for the vote! The satchel and tool roll look great, I especially love the look of the satchel. The tan leather with the brushed cotton is fantastic looking. I'll trade you one of these maps one :P(Also Jelly looks awesome!...see more »Thanks a lot!Yeah more LEDs would have been nice, but to be completely honest I started doing this a different way to begin with, with just regular RGB leds, of which I had exactly 18 LEDs in total! Eagle eyed people might even notice that the LED i poke through is not a neopixel (you can tell by the legs). I moved to Neopixels after deciding I did not want to solder 60 current limiting resistors to all the pins!Someone on reddit suggested el wire along the entire route, which is a cool idea but you would have to do something else for the colour changing aspect.Thanks for the vote! The satchel and tool roll look great, I especially love the look of the satchel. The tan leather with the brushed cotton is fantastic looking. I'll trade you one of these maps one :P(Also Jelly looks awesome!)Honestly I think your instructables are more in the spirit of that competition, yeah mine does fit the criteria, but I think it is more about traveling, getting out and seeing the world!

Thanks! Yeah it can pretty useful!

Hey, cool project! I especially like the Web UI for configuring. I wrote the YouTube API library and I love to see people use it!One thing, the Nokia 5110 Adafruit library doesn't compile when you have an ESP8266 board as the target, you need to use a fixed version of the library:https://github.com/bbx10/Adafruit-PCD8544-Nokia-5110-LCD-library/tree/esp8266

Hey GeorgeI have an instructables on making a social media stats counter if you look at my profile. It supports YouTube, instructables, Twitter and Facebook. It might make a good place to start for you to make your own flap it! I need to make changes to the face book library as currently the key expires after a short amount of time, but the other ones work well! It also uses something called spiffs, which is like eeprom and it can be used to save settings, you should look into that too as it's a little easier to use

Hey, nice project! I did something similar a while back but instead of a Android app I was using a website hosted on the ESP8266. The app approach is really cool though.The IR library I used supported reading the codes on the ESP8266. Also you might be able to get the LED brighter using a transistor as a switch, mine works from a few meters, but it still needs work as its not as powerful as the remote and doesn't work perfectly with my Satellite box. https://www.instructables.com/id/Using-an-ESP8266-A...

No it doesn't, its for Arduino only

It's not my library! I just really like it and wanted to share

Hi Deepak,You dont get to see the travel time of individual parts of the route, but what you could do is make a request for that 100m of road as you origin and destination. Go to google maps and get the request you want to make, and then you can take the origin and destination from the URL

Hey ericIf you look at the branches on github for the instructable api library I did some work to get it working on a ethernet shield and an unoI got one of the requests working but I'm not sure if the uno he enough ram for the second oneI think it is a better idea to get the esp8266 though!

There is a second method call available with the instructables api library "getAuthorStats" that returns information on the given user, one of them is total number of views. I use it in my social counter instructableCheck out the example from the library for more details of what is returned. https://github.com/witnessmenow/arduino-instructables-api/blob/master/examples/ESP8266/BasicExample/BasicExample.ino

Hey, Really great looking project, fantastic use of the library! Glad you found a use for it!

Hey, thanks! Taking a quick look, there is a thingiverse api but it seems to require approval to be allowed use it, I might request access and see what they say.

Thanks! Yeah it's pretty fun ok! Although my stats don't change a huge amount at the moment!

No it's actually indestructible's own API. As mentioned my Maker Saga, you can see it being called on the Chrome network tab when you refresh the page. The post stat one is the most obvious one that is called as if you refresh a instructable page you can see the views and likes load as one thing and then change to something else.

Thanks! Yeah it's very obvious on the inscrutable page but I was very happy to see user stats were also available.Yeah it's a pity it kinda complicated to get the Post ID but its not too bad I guess.

Hey Nikus, cool project! I'm the author of the library that Bekathwia used in her project and I have actually been working on a library for this aswell.https://github.com/witnessmenow/arduino-instructab...Instructables has an API that it uses for their website, but they do not publically advertise it. It currently works the get the statistics of the user or get the statistics of an instructable post. It works on the ESP8266 but it should also be possible to get it working using the ethernet shield as it does not use HTTPS. I created a branch of the library to test out the ethernet shield changes, I had it working for the post stats, but I think the user stats might use up too much memory to use the json library, but maybe the data could be parsed out manually insteadhttps://github.com/w...see more »Hey Nikus, cool project! I'm the author of the library that Bekathwia used in her project and I have actually been working on a library for this aswell.https://github.com/witnessmenow/arduino-instructab...Instructables has an API that it uses for their website, but they do not publically advertise it. It currently works the get the statistics of the user or get the statistics of an instructable post. It works on the ESP8266 but it should also be possible to get it working using the ethernet shield as it does not use HTTPS. I created a branch of the library to test out the ethernet shield changes, I had it working for the post stats, but I think the user stats might use up too much memory to use the json library, but maybe the data could be parsed out manually insteadhttps://github.com/witnessmenow/arduino-instructab...Hopefully you might find it useful!

Hey Becky,A user pointed out an issue with the example sketch of the library, that I just checked that you have the same issue in your sketch. Sorry, my bad!The issue is that millis() will eventually roll over and start counting up from 0 again (I think it roughly about 40 days when this happens). When that happens your sketch will stop checking youtube as the if statement in the loop will never be true.It's fixed on github now if you want to check it out (just change the two time holding variables to unsigned long):I added a new example to the library as well that uses WiFiManager library, you should check it out as it means you don't need to reprogram the device to change the Wifi Network and you can also configure the API key and Channel ID using it too.I've More Info on WifiManager ...see more »Hey Becky,A user pointed out an issue with the example sketch of the library, that I just checked that you have the same issue in your sketch. Sorry, my bad!The issue is that millis() will eventually roll over and start counting up from 0 again (I think it roughly about 40 days when this happens). When that happens your sketch will stop checking youtube as the if statement in the loop will never be true.It's fixed on github now if you want to check it out (just change the two time holding variables to unsigned long):I added a new example to the library as well that uses WiFiManager library, you should check it out as it means you don't need to reprogram the device to change the Wifi Network and you can also configure the API key and Channel ID using it too.I've More Info on WifiManager here.

No, I'm not the author of this library. Funnily enough before I found it I had a similar idea and went checking to make sure something didn't exist. Glad I did because they have done a really great job with this library!

You are welcome! Glad I could help!

Sorry I have never used a MKR1000 so I'm not sure.

Your welcome! Thanks for the comment

Your welcome, glad you found it useful!

Your welcome! Yeah it's really useful OK was happy to share it others cause I find it great too

Your very welcome! Thanks alot

No problem, thanks for commenting

Hey DGW,It stands for Application Program Interface. But I guess more important this is what is it! Basically it's a way for an application or service to be easily interacted with by a program. So the library mentioned is making a call to the YouTube API and returning the results. Lots of APIs are available for different services

Hey, if you look at the example on the github page of the YouTube API library you'll see the stats the library supports.View count is one, likes isn't though (doesnt come back in the statistics api request)Brian

Hey, I wrote the Youtube api library and i absolutely love coming across somebody using it! Project looks great, thanks a lot for sharing!I haven't even made one for myself yet, although i would only need 3 digits! (And only just!).For people asking about making other counters, if you let me know which services you'd like i can take a look into if it possible!Brian

A commenter on youtube made this change when they were having the same issue and it works for themhttp://prntscr.com/edeavf

Hey Daniel, Glad it worked for you! I've ordered some PIR sensors, but they are on the slow boat from China so I haven't played around with any yet. As far as i know most PIR sensors have a couple of adjustments you can make to them to the change how often they trigger, it might be worth looking into that, here is a pretty good link describing it You could also cool down timer in your code, that it wouldn't set the flag unless a certain amount of time had past.

You will need to program the esp8266 rather than using at codes with.This video should hopefully explain how to program the esp8266 with an unohttps://youtu.be/P_ecAFpUADU

I'd say we must be using different versions of the arduino ide. Try changing it to "ssid: " + String(ssid) + "\n"I've a feeling you'll need to do the same on the next line with ipAdress

Hey, I've it installed for the last couple of years or so don't really remember the setup process. If your talking about the permission to read SMS, I think that's used at verification. I'd imagine what's app has the same permissions.The IFTTT method should allow you to raise notifications without installing anything new (if you use email for example) so hopefully that works out for you.

Hey, which board are you using?The error seems to relate to trying to add (+) on different types of strings. Have yo added a new serial print that prints the tokens?

HeyI took a look at this last night. I didn't look through your link too much, but just went direct to pushsafers websiteESP8266 can do https, both of the libraries in this instructable talk https to their endpoints.I spent some time making a library to talk with pushsafer, but I haven't got it working yet, but it should be close! (It was late and I needed to go to bed!)https://github.com/witnessmenow/pushsafer-arduino-...I'll spend a few minutes on it tonight and see can I get it working. It needs to be tidied up a bit, but the example attempts to make a request to pushsafer with the configured inputsThey have examples for arduino on their website, but it doesn't even compile (trying to call length() on an int for example) so I didn't think there was much value in basing the code on th...see more »HeyI took a look at this last night. I didn't look through your link too much, but just went direct to pushsafers websiteESP8266 can do https, both of the libraries in this instructable talk https to their endpoints.I spent some time making a library to talk with pushsafer, but I haven't got it working yet, but it should be close! (It was late and I needed to go to bed!)https://github.com/witnessmenow/pushsafer-arduino-...I'll spend a few minutes on it tonight and see can I get it working. It needs to be tidied up a bit, but the example attempts to make a request to pushsafer with the configured inputsThey have examples for arduino on their website, but it doesn't even compile (trying to call length() on an int for example) so I didn't think there was much value in basing the code on their example.

Hey, I took a look into this for you.Esp8266 can do https, both these libraries use it.Here is a library I created to work with pushsaferhttps://github.com/witnessmenow/pushsafer-arduino-...It does work, It can send notifications ok, but for some reason the response is not received back on the ESP8266, not too sure what is wrong (maybe I'm not waiting long enough for it, pushsafer doesn't seem as fast to respond as Telegram when I was testing with curl).Pushsafers Arduino example on their website is trying to use length() methods on ints so I dont think they tested it very well :)

Hey, that sounds great! Really good idea logging it to Google sheets, I was thinking before about seeing could I use the Google api to do it before but I haven't looked into yet.Thanks a lot for your comment, really appreciate it. It's a Great feeling to see people using stuff that I've made!

Thanks a lot!

oh, that's not good! What board are you using?Any esp8266 chips I've had and decent WiFi range, not sure how long but it has never been an issue (definitely more than 10 feet). Do you have it in a metal case or near something metal (like a battery)?If you look at my video on telegram it talks about sending commands to your device, you could use that communicate both ways with your esp8266https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP2J5BaQIWs

Hi Pavan, I'm sorry I don't understand your question, what's the problem you are having?

I've never tested as i don't have a board! The libraries work by passing in a HTTPS client in to them, just looking at the arduino core for esp32 it looks like there is some issues with WifiClientSecure. There was a PR raised to fix it yesterday, so hopefully it's close!https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/pull/20...If it works for you please do let me know

Hey, thanks for your message. Glad it was useful for you!